What Happened To Liberal Democracy? (remaking A Politics Of Shared Prosperity – From The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Economics)

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By (author) Acemoglu Daron

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A new theory of liberalism for a post-industrial world, from nobel prize winning author of Why Nations Fail

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Shared prosperity, equality, democratic values and the free pursuit of knowledge. Liberalism promised much, and even delivered on some of those promises. But now the remaining relics of establishment liberalism are being eroded by elitism, intolerance and rising autocracy. What went wrong? And what comes next?Liberalism flourished as the underdog in a sea of competing political ideologies. But once it became the dominant ideology, it faltered. It failed to adapt in a postindustrialist world. And the very systems designed to deliver prosperity began to undermine it.Nobel prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu offers a new theory of liberalism, one that lays the groundwork for how we can – and must – rehabilitate liberal ideas and practices, now more than ever.

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Praise for WHY NATIONS FAIL:An important book

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A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank

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An intellectually rich book that develops an important thesis with verve

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Two of the world”s leading experts on development explain why it is not geography, disease, or culture which explains why some nations are rich and some poor, but rather a matter of institutions and politics. This highly accessible book provides welcome insight to specialists and general readers alike

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A vital work for these times

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A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank … they have done you the courtesy of writing a book that while at the intellectual cutting edge is not just readable but engrossing … erudite and fascinating

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Truly an awesome book. Acemoglu and Robinson tackle one of the most importantproblems in the social sciences – a question that has bedevilled leading thinkers for centuries – and offer an answer that is brilliant in its simplicity and power. A wonderfully readable mix of history, political science, and economics, this book will change the way we think about economic development. Why Nations Fail is a must read book

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DARON ACEMOGLU is Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of MIT”s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, and Research Affiliate at MIT”s Blueprint Labs. He has been awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, the BBVA Frontiers Award, the Global Economy Prize and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.

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A new theory of liberalism for a post-industrial world, from nobel prize winning author of Why Nations Fail